Le jardinier

The story

This is a surreal comedy is about a factory set in a barren landscape that dispenses a minute portion of water to stragglers carrying pans as receptacles. Inside, the workers seem to be doing nothing that makes any sense, and they are watched over by a periscope set up by twins who run the factory. An unexplained, plain woman living on the premises is sought after by the whimsical foreman (Maurice Benichou) -- also known as the "gardener" because he has planted flowers in the coal wagons that remain on a maze of train tracks -- the only "stock" owned by the company.

Cast

M Maurice BénichouThe overseer M Michelle MarquaisMadame J Jean BolloThe manager P Pierre BoloThe manager's brother C Claude FaraldoThe winning workman D Daniel LalouxThe father of the child G Geneviève MnichThe mother of the child G Georges TrillatThe entertainer A Alain FrérotThe eternal victim A Armand BabelThe patriarch F François DyrekThe thief of water